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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD * Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September. 1880 l
Established 18ob. i Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1915. t
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915.
Vol. 50—No 41
Farmers’
Supply Store
We wish to thank our customers and friends for
their loyal support and kindnesses shown us since
we moved into our new store. We are now better
prepared than ever to serve them. We have clean,
commodious quarters and a now, clean stock of
goods throughout. Plenty room to take care of our
friends’ packages. Also, ample hitching grounds
for stock, as well as for parking vehicles.
Our line of shoes consists of the best work shoes
made, as well as fine shoes and oxfords—all new
stock. We buy direct from the manufacturer, get
ting the best that can be bought for the money.
We carry also a full line of staple dry goods.
“Headlight” overalls we claim to be the best
made, and we sell them.
Work pants for men and boys.
Everything to eat for man and beast.
DeSoto flour, the very best for the price,
sack guaranteed. Buy it and try it.
Cuba Molasses.
We buy in large lots the following articles, and
can sell them at wholesale prices—
Flour, Starch, Snuff, Soap, Soda, Tobacco,
Tomatoes, (canned,) Lard, Matches, Coffee.
Help out your feed bill by sowing peas and sor
ghum. We have peas and sorghum seed for sale.
Sorghum seed, Red Top, Orange and Amber.
Scovil hoes, handle hoes, grain cradles, barbed
wire, hog wire, poultry wire.
Come to our store, rest here, store your bundles,
and drink ice water with us. We will enjoy having
you do this.
.very
T. G. FARMER &
’Phone 147.
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
If You Use Groceries
And II You Want Good Groceries
SWINT'S
Is the Place
He keeps a complete stock
of all kinds of groceries and
foodstuffs, and can make it
to your interest to see him
before buying your groceries.
Phone 54
RETROSPECTION.
Como! alt by mv wide awhile. I prnv,
And let us talk of the years gone by!
You grow wrinkled and I grow gray.
And sometimes I fancy our neighbors say:
"Those poor old souls 1—they are ready to die.”
Ready to die!—oh, no! oh no!
Never whs sunshine more sweet to me;
Never were fairer Rowers. I know.
Thun those at our feet; and the airs that blow
Are laden with odors from over the sea.
Speak of the house where we were born;
Speak of our curly hopes and fears!
Of the brook and the bridge and the berried thorn;
Of the odorous orchard, the waving corn.
And check for awhile your rising tears?
Where the old house stood grows the green grass.
Ami the graves in the garden are quite forgot;
Ami they that down the wayside pass
Nod a good morning—Alas, alas!
In the place of our birth they know us not!
And we jog on!—but the edge of grief
Grows duller and duller, day by day!
We stand in the world us stands n sheaf
Of gruin in the cornfield waiting. In brief,
We are ready to go, as our neighb »rs say.
— [H. L. Spencer.
STRUGGLE OF THE GIANTS.
C. C. Anderson in Macon Telegraph.
The armies of Europe, so far as dis
patches indicate, are greater in numbers
than history has ever recorded. Xerxes
marched into Greece with a 1,000,000
men. Alexander fought Darius, King of
Persia, at Arbela. The Greek army
numbered 40,000 men, while the Persian
army numbered 1,000,000. Darius was
cleaned up horse, foot and dragoons.
This shows what a well drilled army of
brave soldiers can do with a mob, how
ever numerous. Arbela, Issus, Grani-
cus all were the scenes of triumph for
the well disciplined army of Grece.
The great armies reported in history
as having been assembled to oppose Cy-
rus-Alexander and to invade Greece,
were supposed to be fairy tales, con
jured by the brain of the writers, or if
true, they could only be assembled in
the East, where men were Blaves and
life was cheap. Efforts have been made
to explain away the vast numbers men
tioned in the Old Testament as Eastern
exaggeration or improper translation of
the Hebrew. Whatever may be opinion
as to these ancient stories, whether
, fancy or fact, the numberless hordes
fade into insignificance as compared
with the millions now facing each other
in Europe.
One million of men standing in line,
] elbows touching, would extend in a sin-
i gle line six hundred miles. In double
I lines, the million would extend three
i hundred miles. Now give room for the
vast throngs of cavalry and the im
mense parks of artillery, the countless
herds of cattle and long trains of wag
ons, hauling provisions, forage, shot
and shell, ammunition, arms, and cloth
ing for this million men. The thing is
inconceivable. The very roads become
impassible. The wheels would cut ruts
so deep that the axles would drag on
tho ground. Not a green blade of grass
would be left —not a green leaf—all—
all would be consumed in the insatiable
maw of horses, cattle, mules and men.
The earth itself would be trodden into
an impalpable dust for miles on every
side. Not a stick could be found to heat
a cup of coffee no r a drop of water in
any well. A desert the country would be
made, when trodden by such an army,
and a dreary desolation as far as the
far-flung battle lines extended.
T. S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Pepresenting
r Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York
American Surety Co., of New York
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greenuilie st., Ouer H. C. GlouerCo.
In such a multitude of soldiers, the
men would perish for water, waiting
their turn to fill canteens at the well,
spring or stream. Disease would beset
and slay by the hundreds of thousands
the embattled warriors. Famine would
lay a death grip on the women and
children left behind at home. Business,
especially agriculture, would stagnate
and die. Fields would lie desolate,
weeds would spring up in the cattle
folds, no more would the cock’s clarion
note be he,.rd to greet the rising sun.
The State of Virginia from Richmond to
Washington by way of Fredericksburg,
has not recovered from the blighting
tread of Grant’s invading army of 150,-
000 men, even to this day, fifty years
afterwards, the soldiers, North and
South, know the above picture is not
overdrawn. They have had experience,
they know, they have seen and suf
fered.
Germany has 60,000,000 people, half
of them producers. If statements be
true, she has 7,000,000 men under arms,
or one out of every nine people. One
is taken away from the ranks of the
producers and made a consumer with a
big C. Counting camp followers, one is
taken out of every six. Now what ef
fect does this sudden drain have upon
the labor and productive capacity and
business of a country? Germany has no
doubt 6,000,000 men to draw upon to of
fer up in blood upon the altar of the
war god, but she could not make the
offering all at once. Oh, no. She will
put them in the shambles by Install
ments. Long before the 6,000,000 sol
diers have Deen consumed, the German
people will have had enough, and the
carnival of blood will cease.
The South had 4,000,000 people. She
could only raise 600,000 men in all, from
first to last, about one in seven. The
North had 120,000,000 inhabitants, und
she put in the war 2,873,000 men, or
about one in seven. Lee's army never
exceeded 73,000 men at one time. John
ston had about 60.000. Kirby Smith
had nearly 30 000 at their maximum
strength. Grant’s army never reached
beyond 150.000 men. usually 130.000
Sherman's army ran from 100,000 to
120,000 men All the armies ran in to
tals much less than the above figures
as an average, and the two sections
were taxed to their very utmost, to feed
those armies and carry on the wa-. At
the expiration of four years, the South
could no longer recruit her armies nor
feed them.
Newspaper correspondents may write
of millions in the armies of Germany,
France and England, but old soldiers
know they are simply copying the
chronicles of Xerxes, Alexander, Da
rius, Cambyses, et. al. They exagger
ate. The millions are not on the tiring
line. They may be wearing uniforms,
but they are not at the front.
prosperous Kansas.
Kansas Citytetar.
Wall atr eet may be steped in gloom
if it likes. Kansas doesn't care. For
Kansas has 184,000,000 bushels of
wheat!
One hundred and eighty-four million
bushels! The figures are incredible.
They are too big to have meaning. The
mind doesn’t get them. About all that
the average mind can grasp is that the
yield is almost exactly double the big
gest previous yield in the history of the
State—and that was a yield that made
Kansas throw up its hat.
One hundred and eighty-four million
bushels! At an average price of sixty-
five cents a bushel that will net the
farmers of Kansas $120,000,000. One
hundred and twenty million dollars, not
made by swapping things, nor by haul
ing them from place to place, nor by
any of the other necessary, but indirect
ly productive activities of this modern
civilization. It is $120,000,000 produced,
created, made to appear where only a
few months ago there was only bare
ground. It is $120,000,000 directly
added to the world’s wealth.
To get the meaning of this $120,000,-
000 fall back once more to comparisons.
The Kansas farmers will get twice as
much money from their wheat this year
as they have averaged for the last live
years. A goodly portion of their regu
lar income is doubled in a year! Think
what the doubling of salaries and wages
would mean to the idea of what doub
ling the wheat income moans to Kansas-
With all the other crops in prim#
condition, promising more than their
average yield the prosperity of Kansas
is going to set a new mark.
Mortgages are going to be reduced,
money put away in the bank as insurance
against unforeseen events and improve
ments made about the farms that will
add to their productiveness and make
life richer and more varied in a hundred
ways. Plumbing will be installed in
thousands of homes, new lighting sys
tems will be introduced, better furni
ture and clothing will be in demand and
automobiles and pianos and talking
machines will be called for.
The prosperity of the farmer will
filter through the merchant and manu
facturer and their employ es. Industry
and trade in every department will be
stimulated. The money that the sun and
rains have pulled out of the ground will
eventually find its way into the pockets
of the workers and their families ail
over this great Southwestern country.
The New Haven may have its troubles
and the east may shake its head in gloom.
But Missouri is coming in with splendid
crops, and Iowa, Nebraska and Oklaho
ma. And Kansas — Kansas has raised
184,000,000 bushels of wheat.
“Charles,” said the teacher, “do
you know what the word ‘celerity’
means?’’
“Yes'm,” said Charles. “It’s some
thing you put hot plates down with.”
BACK GIVES CUT.
Plenty of Newnan Readers Have
This Experience.
You tax the kidneys — overwork
them —
They can’t keep up the continual
strain.
The back may give out—it may ache
and pain;
Urinary troubles may set in.
Don’t wait longer — take Doan’s
Kidney Pills.
Newnan people tell you how they
act.
Mrs. N. P. Scroggin, 25 Second ave
nue. Newnan, says: ”1 was taken sud
denly with an intense pain in the small
of my back. The least move caused a
sharp pain to shoot through my body,
and I finally got so bad that I had to
stay in bed, I called in a doctor, but
he didn’t give much relief. Doan’s
Kidney Pills, procured of J. F. Lee
Drug Co., relieved me from the first,
and four boxes cured me of all symp
toms of kidney complaint.”
Price 50c., at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Scroggin had. Foster - Milburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
Enforcement of the Criminal Laws.
Rome Tribune-Herald.
Back of the Frank case, and a great
number of criminal trials in Georgia
whose final result has had a similar
ending, is the great question of non-
enforeemertt of the criminal laws in
Georgia. The people are getting ex
ceedingly tired of the way the laws in
this State are being enforced.
It is claim, d in some quarters that no
matter how heinous the crime, or how
guilty the culprit, he stands a fair
chance to escape punishment, if he can
secure sufficient funds to pay lawyers,
and bring sufficient political pressure
to bear on the pardoning power. The
Tribune-Herald is speaking generally
in this regard, without reference to any
particular case.
But that this state of things exists
cannot be denied; and that an outraged
public sentiment is going to revolt
against such a system is bound to be
the ultimate result. It so happens that
the Frank case has attained widespread
notoriety, which naturally directs pub
lic attention particularly in that direc
tion. For a long time this state of
things has been going on, until the en
forcement of the criminal law in Geor
gia has become a travesty. The people
are not going to stand for such condi
tions much longer. Practically every
noted criminal in this State haH escaped
punishment. It isn’t because of the
lack of laws —there are more laws in
Georgia than we know what to do with
—but it is the lack of enforcement of
of these laws that causes the trouble.
The result of this state of things
is well-known to those who have
taken the trouble to investigate. The
homicide records of Georgia have been
a stigma on our civilization. There is
not a European nation of any conse
quence that doesn’t have fewer homi
cides i^ithin a year than the State of
Georgia, and this notwithstanding a
disparity in population makes the com
parison wofully to our disadvantage.
We do not believe that the people of
Georgia are going to stand for this
much longer. They will rise in revolt,
if it takes a revolution to bring about,
the necessary reforms.
Some newspapers take up considera
ble space arguing against capital pun
ishment. This is scarcely necessary, as
there is not much chance of capital
punishment being inflicted on any crim
inal in this State so long as present
conditions prevuil. They had much bet
ter exert their energies toward a proper
enforcement of the laws.
A crime must not only be absolutely
proved, but the criminal must confess,
before some people are willing to ad
mit that he is guilty. Circumstantial
evidence is the best evidence of guilt
in the world, in some cases. This fact
is known and recognized by those fa
miliar with criminal practice.
When a criminal is found guilty by a
jury, immediately efforts begin to have
an appellate court reverse the decision.
Then there is the Pardon Board and the
Governor to appeal to, besides motions
for new trial and technical efforts innu
merable.
This is a deep problem for the people
of Georgia. The present situation is to
tally unsatisfactory. The lax enforce
ment of our criminal laws is a blow at
the very root of our jurisprudence.
More than that, if it continues, it will
result some day in a social upheaval
that will shake our domestic,system to
its very foundations. The agitation in
Atlanta over the Frank case is just as
much a protest against existing condi
tions generally as it was protest against
the action of the Governor in that par
ticular case. As the years go by this
protest will grow louder and stronger,
unless there is a speedy reform in the
administration of our criminal laws.
Facts About Our State.
Cedartown Standard.
Hon. J. D. Price, our able Commis
sioner of Agriculture, has issued a book
in which he sets forth in complete form
the agricultural and industrial assets of
the State. The book is entitled,
"Georgia, the Empire State of the
South.”
It is intended as a reply to hundreds
of inquiries made at the department
about the State—especially from pros
pective settlers—but contains a lot of
facts that many native Georgians are
not familiar with.
A list of the counties gives the popu
lation of each; its leading city, leading
products, average value of its farm
land, and altitude. There is also de
tailed climatic data.
The State’s greatest productions are
given detailed mention; the cotton crop,
the peach orchards, the grain yield,
hay, fruit, and various other things
raised. Livestock comes in for special
mention. Attention is also given to
hydro-ehctric power, manufacturing
and commerce.
Each subject is specially illustrated
with photograph. The book is the re
sult oi extensive research.
Curas Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cori
The v^orst cases, no matter of how long standing,
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porter's Antiseptic Healing OIL It relieves
I Pain and LI cal a at the same time. 25c, 50c, $L00.
Unclaimed Letters.
Tho following list of unclaimed let
ters will be sent to the Division of Dead
Letters, if not called for within two
weeks:
W P Andrews, Lula Beavers, Bill
Futch, Nellie Hammett, Mery Jane
Herrin. Beulah High, Bob Hudgins,
H N McCoy, Billie Pearson. Mary Rag-
hind, Martha Smith, Annie Strong Joe
Shorter, Martha Starks, Becke Thur
man, Aline Tigner.
To avoid delay in delivery have your
mail addressed to street and number,
box number, R. F. D, number or gen
eral delivery.
In calling for the above, please say
“advertised,'' and pay one penny for
same. Susie M. Atkinson, P. M,
Well, things are certninly getting se
rious around this printshop. We have to
lick a soup bone for breakfast, suck our
teeth for dinner, and take up our belly-
band for supper. Please pay your sub
scription. —Greensboro Herald-Journal.
GEORGIA FOLKS
Indigestion, Gastritis, Nerves.
Savannah, Ga.—" Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery I praise highly aa
it was the means of my return to health
when 1 was greatly run-down and
lacked vigor, strength, blood and nerve
tone. I was simply a nervous wreck-
lacking in vitality and bad grown quite
thin. I could not gain in llesli as I was
suffering from indigestion and gastritis.
My liver was very inactive and in con
sequence my food wouli. ferment and
create a great amount of gas. My
nervous system was deranged also and
I did not sleep well at night. Tho
‘ Discovery ’ certainly met your claims.
After I had taken four bottles it cor
rected my constipation in addition to
restoring my health.” — Mrs. L.
Carlyle, 204 Park Avenue, W.
A Temperance. Remahj That Emin Sort’
ness, IicAchliuj, Ilea clues*. Heart-
burn ami Dizziness.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov
ery has been so suceessfi 1 in the treat
ment of indigestion, that, thousands of
fowier sufferers owe their good health
of to-day lo its wonderful power, and
testimonials prove it.
It arouses the little muscular fibres
into activity and causes the gastric
juices to thoroughly mix with the food
you eat, simply because it supplies the
stomach with pure, rich blood. It's
weak, inquire blood that causes stom
ach weakness. < let good blood through
the Use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery, ami you will have no more
Indigestion.
It is the world’s proved blood puri
fier. Sturt to take it to-day and before
another day 1ii«h passed, the impurities
of the blood will begin to leave your
body through the eliminative organs,
and in a few days you will know by
your steadier nerves, firmer step, keener
mind, brighter eyes and clearer skin
that the bad blood is passing out, and
new, rich, pure blood is filling you*
veins and urlerics.
Professional Cards.
DH. SAM BRADSHAW
OSTEOPATH
300-307 Atlanta National Bank Building, At
lanta. Ga. Atlanta ’phone—Main, 3901: Deca
tur ’phone. 268.
W. L. WOODROOF,
PHYSICIAN ANDSURGEON.
Office 11Vii Greenville street. Residence 9 Perry
street. Office 'phone 401; residence 'phone 451.
D. A. HANEY,
PHYSICIAN ANDSURGEON.
Offers hia professional service to the people of
Newnan, und will anHwcrull calls town or coun
ty. Office in the Jones Build ini?, E. Broad Street.
Office and residence 'phone 289.
THOS. J. JONES,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office on E Broad street, near public square.
R isidcnce 9 JefTerson street.
T. B. DAVIS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office—Sanitarium building. Office 'phone 5—1
tail; residence 'phone 5—2 calls.
W. A. TURNER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Special attention given to surgery and diseases
>t women. Office 24 W. Broad street. ’Phone 230
F. I. WELCH,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office No. 9 Temple avenue, opposite public
tchool building. 'Phone 231.
THOS. G. FARMER, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Will give carefid and prompt attention to ail
1 igal business entrusted tome. Money to loan.
Office in court-house.
Atlanta and West Point
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